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A Light Through Coloured Glass
UK 2022
produced by Mike Clarke, Matthew George Walsh (executive) for Half Sun Entertainment
directed by Mike Clarke
starring Kyle Brookes, Sophia Leanne Kelly, Macaulay Cooper, Danni Shepherd, Alessio Tornese, Emily Rose Holt, Helen Kent, Nick Wardle, Keith Hyland, Amar Karim, Michelle Monk, Phil Gwilliam, Amelia Slater, Sarah Withe, Matthew George Walsh, John Alan Roberts, Tina Louise Owens, Anthony St Clair Cadogan, Patrick O'Neill, Aimee Pickering, Holly Walker, Stephanie Amy Hindle, Jo Dennis, Jess Sweeney, Phillip Leon Redgrave, Julia O'Keeffe, Mark Tommo, Iain Cash, Steve Normandale, Clare Gadsby, Peter Roberts, Malc Haigh, Ursula Sutcliffe, Nadine Kerr, Alex Vatmanides
written by Mike Clarke, music by Nicolás Iaconis IV
review by Mike Haberfelner
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All of his life, William (Kyle Brookes) has been a good Christian, so
eventually becoming the local church's organist was a logical step,
really. Likewise was to host a religious TV show on public access
television togehter with his wife. Thing is, his wife has recently left
him for another man, and he feels crushed. Then he meets a young woman,
Tina (Sophia Leanne Kelly), who needs only a handful of Pounds to get out
of a squeeze, and he helps her out. Now she's nothing like him, she's
loud-mouthed, swears a lot, and her slutty attire doesn't go with his
conservative style - but despite them being polar opposites, they take an
instant liking to one another. So much so in fact that Tina invites
William over to a party to hers, a party he doesn't enjoy one bit due to
the open alcohol and drug abuse, the loud music and the rather shameless
behaviour of Tina and her friends. But that party leaves Tina in a bind,
as she has promised her dealer Dan (Macaulay Cooper) to pay for the stuff
he's brought by, but when he comes to collect the next day, she doesn't
have the money, nor do any of her friends - so ultimately she has to ask
William, who agrees to give her the money, but in exchange for her turning
her life around ... and that includes her moving in with him (not for
sexual favours though, she's got her own room) and trying to get a job. In
her desparation, Tina agrees, and the experiment seems to work out ok at
first. But there's still Dan: Now Tina thinks she has paid him when
she left the money for him on the dinner table of her old home, but her
"best friend" Seb (Alessio Tornese) has actually swiped the
money, leaving her in a bind - a situation that can only lead to disaster
... A pretty impressive drama that welcomely doesn't try to
sell any pre-fabricated point of view (so much so that the ending is left
wide open) but gets its effect from storytelling, and even there it's not
necessarily the few louder, more spectacular scenes that suck one in, but
the subtleties, the things that are said between the lines. And Kyle
Brookes and Sophia Leanne Kelly sure give it their all, making the
chemistry between their very different characters palpable, supported by a
very able cast, and carried by a directorial effort that's just
light-footed enough to make things flow beautifully and make this an
awesome watch.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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